A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader): “A landmark of American independent cinema, fueled by street-level authenticity and reckless energy.”

Pauline Kael (The New Yorker): “So alive with rage, humor, and danger that it feels less like a movie than a lived experience.”

Screening Note:
Preceding the screening of Mean Streets will be Martin Scorsese’s early short The Big Shave (1967, 6 minutes).